Renfrew, Massachusetts

The same ground, surveyed 111 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1886 1997

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1886 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
• 1891 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
• 1893 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Greylock quadrangle1:62500
• 1900 USGS Taconic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Taconic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Taconic quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Taconic quadrangle1:125000
• 1944 USGS North Adams quadrangle1:24000
• 1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS North Adams quadrangle1:31680
• 1948 USGS North Adams quadrangle1:31680
• 1950 USGS North Adams quadrangle1:25000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS North Adams quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS North Adams quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
• 1973 USGS North Adams quadrangle1:25000
• 1973 USGS North Adams quadrangle1:24000
• 1973 USGS North Adams quadrangle1:24000
• 1973 USGS North Adams quadrangle1:24000
• 1975 USGS North Adams quadrangle1:25000
• 1986 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS North Adams quadrangle1:25000
• 1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
• 1997 USGS North Adams quadrangle1:24000

The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Renfrew between 2015 and 2018, burning about 21 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• East Renfrew
• Adams
• Zylonite
• Blackinton
• Brayton Hill
• Braytonville

Every fire recorded in Berkshire County

Museums hold 972 specimens collected within 10 miles of Renfrew between 1828 and 1975: 513 Plantae, 243 Animalia, 195 Fungi, 11 Protozoa, 7 Unrecorded, 3 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A K Harrison, A Schwartz, A. H. Gustafson and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Antennaria plantaginifolia (L.) Richardson, 1823	1898	J. R. Churchill
	Carex pensylvanica Lam.	1898	J. R. Churchill
	Lycopodium annotinum var. pungens (Desv.) La Pylaie ex Desv.	1898	Kofoid, C.A.	North Adams.
	Carex aestivalis M.A.Curtis ex A.Gray	1828	Collector unknown	Saddle Mountain, near Williamstown.
	Carex emmonsii var. muhlenbergii (A.Gray ex Torrey) Rettig	1828	Collector unspecified	Williamstown. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
	Cystopteris bulbifera (L.) Bernh.	1828	Collector unspecified
	Dryopteris goldiana (Hook. ex Goldie) A.Gray	1828	Collector unspecified
	Fraxinus americana L.	1828	J. Torrey
	Jamesoniella autumnalis (DC.) Steph.	1828	Ebenezer Emmons
	Tilia americana L.	1828	Collector unspecified
	Scorzoneroides autumnalis (L.) Moench	1850	not recorded
	Spiraea tomentosa L.	1850	not recorded

All 972 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Renfrew: 6 past producers, 5 producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Berkshire County

The National Weather Service names Renfrew in 1 storm report between 2018 and 2018: 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Berkshire County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 607664. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.